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1. [CQ-Contest] Place to operate ARRL DX CW from So. Africa? (score: 1)
Author: JPescatore@aol.com (JPescatore@aol.com)
Date: Tue Jan 1 06:47:38 2002
Looks like I have to be in ZS-land the week after the ARRL DX CW contest. Anyone know of any multis looking for operators or any single op stations I could operate from for that weekend (Feb 16/17)?
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2002-01/msg00002.html (6,595 bytes)

2. [CQ-Contest] LOTW Percentage, other observations (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:05:04 -0500
I just got back on the air in January, so all my data is for the past two months. About 50% of the contacts are casual DXing, the other half from part time efforts in the various NA and DX contests s
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-02/msg00435.html (8,297 bytes)

3. [CQ-Contest] LOTW Percentage, other observations (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:03:37 -0500
It's not just the bad spots. It's the cheerleading, self-spotting, etc. It's the use of spots to talk to one other connected ham (to extend the email analogy, this is like reply all in email when you
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-02/msg00450.html (8,886 bytes)

4. [CQ-Contest] eQSL vs. LoTW 2009 Data Point: Award levels (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:10:31 -0500
I got back on the air on January 1 2009 and have made and dumped about 1,600 QSOs into both eQSL and LoTW. If I look at my potential award levels just on those QSO's here's what I see: eQSL: 41 state
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-03/msg00092.html (7,564 bytes)

5. Re: [CQ-Contest] New Contesters & CQ-Contest (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:42:36 -0400
I remember in the early 90's when George (WB5VZL at the time) and I (WB2EKK at the time) kept lists of contester email addresses and then Trey (WN4KKN at the time) started up CQ-CONTEST (@tgv.com at
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-08/msg00325.html (8,533 bytes)

6. Re: [CQ-Contest] Techniques of Ye Olden Days (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:23:38 -0400
How about the evolution of multiplier spotting assistance? When I operated at W3LPL back in the late 80s/early 90s it went from: Someone monitoring the 2m callout frequency (both locally and another
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-09/msg00022.html (8,446 bytes)

7. Re: [CQ-Contest] Need advice re amps/setups for contesting (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:31:39 -0400
Someone already gave you the higher is better and "if money is no object" pointers. If money *is* an object, another way to go is the 600w MFJ/Ameritron ALS-600 and the 600w MFJ autotuner. You lose 3
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-10/msg00365.html (8,532 bytes)

8. [CQ-Contest] More Q Codes for Contest Spotting (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:27:47 -0400
QUR? - Will you be giving out your callsign in the next 20 minutes or so, or do I have time to get a cup of coffee and a bagel? QUR - You can probably grind the coffee and hand roll the dough and boi
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-10/msg00406.html (6,998 bytes)

9. [CQ-Contest] SS Musings: Sending the CQer's callsign back (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:23:16 -0500
Since it is *not* a required part of the exchange in SS, I only send the CQers callsign back when I think there may be some doubt in who I'm sending to. Several times when S&Ping on 20 there were mul
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-11/msg00237.html (7,675 bytes)

10. [CQ-Contest] SS Musings: Sweeptakes "Etiquette" (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:50:19 -0500
Years ago I had written an article on Sweepstakes and I managed to scan the text in and updated it a bit, in line with the thread here on SS Musings. I put the write up in the Contesting Wiki Sweepst
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-11/msg00303.html (6,938 bytes)

11. [CQ-Contest] Ethics vs. Rules (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:47:41 -0500
I think it is more "etiquette" vs. rules - there are lots of things that aren't illegal or even unethical, but are just rude. I updated the Contest Wiki section on "Sweepstakes Etiquette" at http://w
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-11/msg00490.html (8,024 bytes)

12. [CQ-Contest] Vanity calls and dits (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:03:19 -0500
I got my novice call WN2ADH as a 12 year-old in1969 and hated ending in dits. But, it never occurred to me to change my call - it was like my name. But when I passed the General in 1970, I forgot to
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-11/msg00580.html (7,965 bytes)

13. [CQ-Contest] Wee hour AP openings on dead bands at multis (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:17:27 -0500
I remember operating 40 or 80 overnight at W3LPL in the 86/87 timeframe, when being near the bottom of the cycle meant 20 and 15 shut down completely at night. On the second night, I'd been running o
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-12/msg00048.html (7,767 bytes)

14. [CQ-Contest] Why the favorite contesting mode of youth will switch back to CW 10 years from now (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:45:51 -0500
CW contesting is mostly typing these days. Kids communicate mostly via typing text messages, vs. speaking, these days. Today's kids who become tomorrow's contesters will like to type, vs. speak, in c
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-01/msg00043.html (7,460 bytes)

15. Re: [CQ-Contest] K3 Kult (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:12:40 -0500
I need a big, RF-sensing, blinking "ON AIR" sign I think. Actually, turning the K3 WIDTH knob (compared with 19 years of sequentially punching the TS-850's dopey 1st IF/2nd IF filter cycling buttons)
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-01/msg00304.html (6,996 bytes)

16. [CQ-Contest] Station Availability for Guest Operation in NA CW Sprint This Weekend in Southern California? (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:36:53 -0500
I have to be in the Palmdale/Los Angeles area for meetings all day Monday and was going to fly out Sunday. However, the weather pundits are now forecasting a big snow storm to hit the DC area Friday
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-02/msg00020.html (8,015 bytes)

17. [CQ-Contest] CQ Test or CQ DX (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:39:15 -0500
When I first moved to Maryland in the late 70s, in Sweepstakes I had to send WB2EKK/3. While I was sending one CQ, KN5H would work three stations... John K3TN (ex-WB2EKK/3) John Geiger wrote:> Heck,
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-02/msg00388.html (8,496 bytes)

18. [CQ-Contest] Cluster Network Improvement (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:36:42 -0500
K1TTT said: "Same answer to all 3... the existing software and network implementation won't handle it. Remember, the existing network was derived from the rf packetcluster network where by law encryp
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-03/msg00087.html (7,709 bytes)

19. [CQ-Contest] Cluster Network Improvement (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:22:17 -0500
K1TTT said "There are several of them around already. Some clubs have limited access to some of their nodes and implemented their own filtering. That does not solve the packet pileup or enable statio
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-03/msg00094.html (8,062 bytes)

20. [CQ-Contest] TS-850SAT -- interesting rig for contesting (score: 1)
Author: jpescatore@aol.com
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:18:34 -0400
I bought a TS-850 new in 1991 and it was my only HF rig since then until I bought a K3 in January of this year. The 850 spent many years at W3LPL doing multi-multi duty, as well as being dragged on m
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2010-04/msg00008.html (7,715 bytes)


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